Add target="_blank" to author website output in comment moderation

[joshua.strebel]

On /wp-admin/edit-comments.php add target="_blank" on the <a href id="author_comment_url_###$" > link. The preview screenshot is not alway sufficient and a click refreshes the current browser page. Would a new window be cleaner?

[joshua.strebel]

Replying to joshua.strebel:

On /wp-admin/edit-comments.php add target="_blank" on the <a href id="author_comment_url_###$" > link. The preview screenshot is not alway sufficient and a click refreshes the current browser page. Would a new window be cleaner?

Accessibility and other considerations may need to be investigated.

[afercia]

@joshua.strebel we've discussed this in today's accessibility meeting, struggling a bit to find this thing :) We suspect it's an Akismet feature, can you confirm please? If so, not related to WordPress core and should be reported to the plugin authors.

[joshua.strebel]

Checked with and without akismet enabled.

Action with Akisment:
Hover over link, shows a screenshot
Click on link, opens in same tab as wp-admin (replaces)

Action w/out akisment
Hover over link, nothing.
Click on link, opens in same tab as wp-admin (replaces)

See screenshot.
​https://www.dropbox.com/s/olc8afyp60kre6w/screenshot407.jpg?dl=0

[joshua.strebel]

It's Line 688 in wp-admin/includes/class-wp-comments-list-table.php

<?php
//687 if ( ! empty( $author_url_display ) ) {
//688  printf( '<a href="%s">%s</a><br />', esc_url( $author_url ), esc_html( $author_url_display ) );
//689 }

Replying to joshua.strebel:

Checked with and without akismet enabled.

Action with Akisment:
Hover over link, shows a screenshot
Click on link, opens in same tab as wp-admin (replaces)

Action w/out akisment
Hover over link, nothing.
Click on link, opens in same tab as wp-admin (replaces)

See screenshot.
​https://www.dropbox.com/s/olc8afyp60kre6w/screenshot407.jpg?dl=0

[joedolson]

The general principle for links in web accessibility is to avoid opening links in a new window.

While it's allowable to do it if there's a full textual disclosure that the link will open in a new window, the accessibility feels that this would lead to a significant amount of additional visual and audio noise on the page, and is not justified given that it's a relatively trivial context menu or keyboard combination option to open a link in a new tab from within the browser.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Related: #23432